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Serendipity, or Twitter and the Narrative of Rhetoric

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 19 March 2009

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The Internet accelerates serendipity. So says my good friend and colleague Diana Kimball. The more I write and think about the Internet, the more I believe her idea to be true.

video idea thanks to the valiantRachel Mercer
Twitter has exploded in the past year, and come along way since its introduction [...]

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Berkman@10: Digital Natives & IRC

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 16 May 2008

I wrote last night about implementing IRC in an educational setting. The topic is coming up right now in the Digital Natives discussion about technology’s role in the classroom, methodologically and physically. I think it’s quite funny though how most of those sitting with laptops in front of them are not currently in the IRC [...]

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